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Winds of Chance (1925) Online
1925 Anna Q. Nilsson Ben Lyon Viola Dana Frank Lloyd
Original Title :
Winds of Chance
Genre :
Movie / Adventure / Drama
Year :
1925
Directror :
Frank Lloyd
Cast :
Anna Q. Nilsson,Ben Lyon,Viola Dana
Writer :
Rex Beach,J.G. Hawks
Type :
Movie
Time :
2h 2min
Rating :
7.3/10

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A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Anna Q. Nilsson Anna Q. Nilsson - Countess Courteau
Ben Lyon Ben Lyon - Pierce Phillips
Viola Dana Viola Dana - Rouletta Kirby
Hobart Bosworth Hobart Bosworth - Sam Kirby
Victor McLaglen Victor McLaglen - Poleon Doret
Dorothy Sebastian Dorothy Sebastian - Laura
Claude Gillingwater Claude Gillingwater - Tom Linton
Charles Crockett Charles Crockett - Jerry
Larry Fisher Larry Fisher - Frank McCaskey
Fred Kohler Fred Kohler - Joe McCaskey
Wade Boteler Wade Boteler - Jack McCaskey
Philo McCullough Philo McCullough - Count Courteau
John T. Murray John T. Murray - Lucky Broad
Fred Warren Fred Warren - Kid Bridges
George Nichols George Nichols - Vigilante Chairman

An Incomplete video copy of this film (missing Reel 2 from 10 Reels copied) survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

En route to location, the Canadian Pacific train's engine was wrecked by a rock slide that killed the engineer. The actors were in the car behind the engine and were battered by falling rocks but escaped disaster. Just a few days later, a snow slide at Lake Minnewanka threw several actors and cameras off an icy ledge of a glacier. Meantime, actress Viola Dana was traveling to meet the company when an earthquake erupted. Actor Tom London dislocated three vertebrae in a fall. A carpenter broke his leg when he was thrown from a barge into rapids and another actor nearly drowned in the rapids.

The Dawson City in the film was built on location along the Truckee River in California.


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Winawel

Winawel

This film is based on a Rex Beach (The Spoilers) story and stars Anna Q. Nilsson as "the Countess," a woman who runs a hotel and saloon in Dawson. Also starred is Ben Lyon as the naive man who comes to the Klondike to find gold but finds much more.

Much of the story involves a group of people making their way across the wilderness to the gold fields and Dawson. There is an excellent sequence where they must go down river through the rapids on weird flat-bottomed boats. Another sequence has them crossing the frozen wasteland and reminds of Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH, which was filming about this same time.

Although the film is missing reel 2, the story flows well and is beautifully tinted. Excellent direction by Frank Lloyd.

The cast is impressive. Along with Nilsson and Lyon we also get Victor McLaglen as the cheerful 'Poleon, Viola Dana as the innocent girl, Dorothy Sebastian as the vengeful saloon girl, Hobart Bosworth as the hapless Sam Kirby, Claude Gillingwater and Charles Crockett as the comedy relief, Fred Kohler as the cheat, and Philo McCullough as the Count.

This is top-notch entertainment.